Brian Joseph Burton, better known by his stage name Danger Mouse, is an American artist and producer. He came to prominence in 2004 when he released The Grey Album, which combined a cappellas from Jay-Z's The Black Album with instrumentals from the album The Beatles (also known as The White Album).

He formed Gnarls Barkley with Cee-Lo Green and produced their albums St. Elsewhere and The Odd Couple. He produced the second Gorillaz album, 2005's Demon Days, as well as Beck's 2008 record, Modern Guilt. He was nominated for a Grammy Award in the Producer of the Year category. In addition, Burton worked with rapper MF DOOM as DANGERDOOM, and released the albums The Mouse and the Mask, and Occult Hymn.

In an interview for the New York Times Magazine, Danger Mouse described himself as an auteur, basing his music production philosophy on the cinematic philosophy of directors like Woody Allen.
"Woody Allen was an auteur: he did his Thing, and that particular Thing
was completely his own," he said. "That's what I decided to do with
music. I want to create a director's role within music, which is what I
tried to do on this album (St. Elsewhere)....
I have to be in control of the project I'm doing. I can create
different kinds of musical worlds, but the artist needs the desire to
go into that world.... Musically, there is no one who has the career I
want. That's why I have to use film directors as a model.

Interview segments with Danger Mouse speaking about the creation of The Grey Album is featured in the 2007 Danish documentary "Good Copy Bad Copy".